Nowadays, most of the online web based eCommerce merchants prefer sound and secure web development platform for building their web stores and shopping cart solutions. And that is why Magento has gained wide popularity among the e-traders. Powering millions of brands and online stores across the globe, Magento holds a major share in the e-commerce market.
Magento comes in two variations, an Enterprise Edition (EE) and a Community Edition (CE). The Community Edition is most widely used version, as it can be downloaded free and it is a fully functional software application that can power many demands in its basic form. A user has to pay to download the Enterprise Edition version. The EE is designed in such a way that it provides more scalability and has a longer and better support life than the CE version. But the EE version has its roots in the CE version.
Recently, Magento has announced the official release of the latest edition of Magento Enterprise edition for merchants – Version 1.13. The latest edition of Magento Enterprise is solely based for merchants to scale effectively. Magento Enterprise version 1.13 has many new features such as improved content caching, optimized catalogue indexing, improved tax recommendations and streamlined checkout flow.
Magento runs best on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) or LEMP (Linux Engine-X, MySQL and PHP) installations, which are all Linux based operating systems.
Magento is currently working on new quality control requirements for extensions, so as to increase the value to both developers and merchants and also for cutting out the extensions that don’t fulfill the necessary requirements.
The main focus of Magento is quality control. It has a huge ecosystem which includes more than 150,000 merchants, web hosting providers and other partners. Last year, Magento launched a web hosting partner program with a select group of providers including Nexcess, Peer 1 and Simple Helix. And has launched many programs so as to enforce quality and make sure that the retailers get the best experience with their Magento hosting provider.
Scaling up is not an easy task. It requires many things such as more knowledge about your web site, cache and firewall requests at the web request layer, of additional support servers in order to load balance and expansion of the data base layer and database infrastructure.
Only an expert can tune and implement this system, perfectly use a monitoring system so that all the components and their services are monitored in proper time. Although the software cost is minimal but the cost of hosting will increase according to the number of physical servers or increased virtual instances. So, if you are planning to build a new online store with Magento Enterprise Edition or thinking about migrating to the Enterprise version, then it is wise to hire the services of certified Magento developers. Conduct a detailed research online to find the best Magento web development companies in your locality and get in touch with them to find more info.
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